SEPANG: Datuk Ismail Ahmad went to Qatar to visit his daughter, her Malaysian husband and their children. The 67-year-old former Sabah National Registration Department director was among 170 people who arrived here on a special evacuation flight by Malaysian Airlines. The flight took another eight hours. “They include Malaysian umrah pilgrims stranded in Saudi Arabia as well as in Qatar, Jordan and Syria,” he said. Initially, more than 400 Malaysians had signed up for evacuation, but some were able to return home earlier when commercial flight operations resumed.

Source: The Star March 12, 2026 00:39 UTC